Livingstone is just upset he got rumbled

Dear Ken Livingstone,

Nice try, but I don’t think you are seriously going to follow up your complaint about Channel 4’s Dispatches programme.  You can stomp your feet as much as you want, but your disgraceful behaviour has not gone unnoticed.

You were accused of “financial profligacy, cronyism and links to a Trotskyite faction conspiring to transform London into a ’socialist city state’ ” and it was also alleged that ”public money was used to smear one of Livingstone’s adversaries and that mayoral staff raised funds for his re-election bid in breach of local government rules.”  Interestingly, you have chosen to attack Dispatches on the grounds of “lack of balance”, rather than attack the specific points raised in the document - which, from what I have been reading, is all completely true.  Guido and Iain Dale have done a decent job of holding you to account but Andrew Gilligan plus newspapers such as THIS and THIS have done even more damage.  Still no answers from you, just a pathetic threat of a lawsuit, which will of course require you to face these allegations should you ever follow it up.

You’re going down at the mayoral elections and I cannot wait to see the back of you.  London deserves better.

Yours sincerely,

A.Tory